Orientalize

verb

Orientalize

verb

Etymology From Oriental + -ize.

1

To make Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

  • But had Persia triumphed on sea and land, and held its conquest in the fifth century, Greece had been orientalized.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 91:

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